.pyc from stdin?

[lallous]

Hello Shay,

"Shay Telfer" <shaypython at earthyself.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1021.1254988413.2807.python-list at python.org...
> Hi...
>
> It seems that python will accept a .py file piped from stdin, but not a 
> .pyc file (and there don't seem to be any flags to allow this). Am I 
> missing something?
>
> Eg
>
> cat blah.py | python
>
> works, but
>
> cat blah.pyc | python
>

Try for example: python -c "import blah"


> doesn't. (If you're wondering why anyone would do this it's because I'm 
> actually intending to use curl rather than cat :)
>

The former works because the Python interpreter understands python syntax, 
and when you (in the latter case) provide the interpreter a pyc file it 
surely won't work because it does not understand those compiled bytes just 
like that....

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Elias